This wood picket fence was no walk in the park. I did a lot of the work in our workshop where I cut the four sides of each picket to form the pointed pickets. After I did that a few hundred times, I cut dual dados on each of the 6×6 fence posts. On-site it was just a matter of putting the fence together. I set my posts 8 ft apart and then mounted two 1×4’s inset between the posts. I then nailed in all the pickets and sandwiched them in by adding two more 1×4’ fascia boards. When insetting rails/fascia boards like this, it’s imperative that the cuts be precise in both length and angle. After I finished the fence, I stepped back and was really impressed with the final product. See more images of this picket fence.

Here is a new wood privacy fence that I just finished building. The entire fence was about 550 feet and took me and two others about 2 days to construct. I built this fence using pressure treated pine and a whole lot of elbow grease. This fence uses 4×4 post exposed with caps, 3 horizontal 2×4 frame rails, 6” pickets, 1×4 bottom fascia board, and a 2×2 lattice with 1×4 fascia boards. You can see more pictures of this custom lattice privacy fence or check out all of my wood privacy fence designs.

Here’s a new wood fence I built that may have been the most time consuming thing I’ve done all year. The entire fence was about 200 feet and took me and two other experts about 3 days to complete. Using quick setting concrete, we can usually build 200 feet of most custom wood fence styles in one day. I built this fence from both pine and western red cedar lumber and bucket of elbow grease. This privacy fence design is fully framed with pressure treated pine lumber. This fence uses concreted 6×6 post with dual dadoed tops, [6] 2×4 frame rails, horizontal louvered 1×4 cedar boards, and 1×3 custom cedar fascia boards. You can see more pictures of this custom cedar privacy fence or check out all of my wood privacy fences.

I work here in Georgia and most commonly when I build a fence, the land is very uneven. So everyone always wants to know how much more it’s going to cost to have to build the fence on the slope. Because of the way I build my wood fence, it takes right at the same amount of work, so I tell them “nothing”. Anyway, building a wood picket fence like this allows the pickets to stay tight to the ground and makes for a much more secure fence. While most of my fences require building them on a slope, this one was on a very steep incline, so I wanted to share it. Here are more pictures of this picket fence